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Sci-Fi Film 'After Earth' Presents Dark Future for Humanity
Space.com ^ | May 17, 2013 | Miriam Kramer

Posted on 05/19/2013 10:21:41 AM PDT by EveningStar

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To: umgud

Because it’s in the future ;-)


21 posted on 05/19/2013 10:50:49 AM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: TomGuy
It is amazing how many of those old vehicles survived.

Yeah. All the computers failed on the newer ones.

22 posted on 05/19/2013 10:51:56 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of opression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: vladimir998
I’m just going by the description of the film. Will Smith’s character says everything on Earth evolved to kill man. Sounds like the same idea as in The Happening - nature responds to man’s oppressive presence by killing him.

Doesn't nature know violence never solved anything?

23 posted on 05/19/2013 10:53:38 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of opression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: EveningStar

Well I mean it sounds like they are going to bring up global warming in it which in turn furthers the cult of Al Gore which in turn makes him even more money. That guy is worth $300 million now if you can believe it even though the last 9 - 5 job he held was 12 years ago in which he only made about $220k before taxes. Instead of global warming, he should write a book letting us all in on his little financial secret. “You too can make a quarter billion bucks in ten short years and all while unemployed!” The fact is the POS was cashing in on stocks from BS green companies he got the government to finance, then the company would fail and he’d move on to the next one with the public holding the bag. The guy should be in jail.


24 posted on 05/19/2013 10:55:13 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

She has to work on the salute a bit,straighten the hand out and sh’s about got it.


25 posted on 05/19/2013 10:57:21 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: EveningStar

Wow, looks great, can’t wait till it comes out. I really liked Will Smith in “I Am Legend”........


26 posted on 05/19/2013 11:02:04 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (This space for rent)
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To: Hot Tabasco

It would take longer that 1000 years to make a death world ala say http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Caliban


27 posted on 05/19/2013 11:06:55 AM PDT by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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To: EveningStar

I’ve got a serious question.
Why are there so many dystopian/TEOTWAWKI movies lately?
Is that the only thing that makes it through the flouride/medication/self-absorbed/haze of the population?
Add to that video games for the under 35 crowd.
Go to any business today, not just the big chains, but they are the best example, and ask an employee for something out of his normal routine.
BZZZ-PHHHT-CRACKEL smell of smoke.
THIS DROID IS NOT PROGRAMMED FOR THAT.
What the hell is wrong with all of you people?!!


28 posted on 05/19/2013 11:10:25 AM PDT by jim999
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To: windcliff; stylecouncilor

“Chef of the Future!”


29 posted on 05/19/2013 11:18:52 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: EveningStar
Will Brian Aldiss be given credit?
30 posted on 05/19/2013 11:21:38 AM PDT by pabianice
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To: EveningStar

The liberal theme is that humans are defiling the Earth and will destroy it, so this fits in with that thought.

In reality, that wouldn’t be much of a solution. The enormous amount of energy and resources needed to ‘colonize’ another planet, would be better spent fixing up Earth.

Also, the trip would take generations. People would be born and die on the space ship. By the time the 10th generation steps off the space ship on the new mother Earth, they won’t have the slightest idea of why they are there and won’t be at all adapted to life on the new planet.

Obviously there would be no memory of planet Earth other than a failed enterprise that forced them into an unnatural life in a steel box.


31 posted on 05/19/2013 11:22:01 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Pi$$ed off yet?)
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To: EveningStar

If it ain’t got zombies & vampires, I ain’t watch’n.


32 posted on 05/19/2013 11:24:43 AM PDT by slouper
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To: umgud
Ever wonder why there are no muslims in Star Trek episodes?
Well, there was a Muslim captain in the first JJ Abrams movie.


34 posted on 05/19/2013 11:49:49 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: EveningStar

Is this a Jedi training movie ? LOL


35 posted on 05/19/2013 11:50:02 AM PDT by molson209
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To: TomGuy

I think it presumes that all computers are defunct, Older model cars (Automobiles) such as those from the sixties and seventies didn’t have micro processors,

older models used distributors and points etc, which would still work after an E.M.P. event such as a nuclear detonation.


36 posted on 05/19/2013 12:05:06 PM PDT by davemac.439
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To: vladimir998

From your description it sounds like a rip-off of Harry Harrison’s 1963 novel Deathworld.


37 posted on 05/19/2013 12:05:06 PM PDT by davemac.439
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

She looks like the monster from Alien that’s been Tangoed!!


38 posted on 05/19/2013 12:05:06 PM PDT by davemac.439
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To: umgud
Ever wonder why there are no muslims in Star Trek episodes?

But islam is the dominant religion in many books by Heinlein and Herbert...

Mark

39 posted on 05/19/2013 12:14:25 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: vladimir998
Will Smith’s character says everything on Earth evolved to kill man.

Which leads me to believe this action flick takes place mostly on Earth (Not Nova Prime) after he and his son crash land back on Earth 1000 years after humans left. Correct? I mean...he says it's Earth.

40 posted on 05/19/2013 12:16:02 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (For me, I plan to die standing as a free man rather than spend one second on my knees as a slave.)
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